Sen. Tim Scott, after a listening tour in Iowa this past week, Sunday parried questions about his plans for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination and instead accused Democrats of “working on a blueprint on how to ruin America.”

“If you wanted to ruin America you would print and spend trillions of dollars leading to the highest inflation,” the South Carolina Republican said in an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” rejecting complaints from some quarters that he has been putting out a negative message on the opposing party’s actions.

“Why is that negative to point out under Joe Biden’s leadership we’ve had the highest inflation in 40 years?” he said. “Why is it negative to point out that we’ve had four and a half million people across our southern border illegally? Why is it negative to point out the fact that we’ve had 100,000 deaths to overdoses linked to fentanyl?”